Series 1 > Papal negotiations with Mary Queen of Scots during her reign in Scotland, 1561-1567

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§ VII. THE PAPAL SUBSIDY
1566]
Mylord Creichton.
Mylord Glammes.
Mylord Forbes.
Mylord Maxuel.
Mylord Euindal [Avandale].
Mylord Charcart [Cathcart].
Mylord MefFen [Methven],
EPISCOPI omnes sunt Ca-
tholici et constantes, demptis
tribus.
My lord Creichton.
My lord Glammes.
My lord Forbes.
My lord Mazuel.
My lord Charcard.
My lord Lovat.
My lord Borthik.
My lord Meffan.
EPISCOPI omnes sunt Ca-
tholici demptis Ms quinque
[sic]:
Candidecase.
Orcadum.
Argateliae.
Ins alarum.
BARONES sequuntur comites quibus subsunt.
URBES et civitates pro mqjori parte sunt in haeresi pertinaces.
No. 67
A LETTER TO FATHER EVERARD [MERCURIAN]
I. Source.—The following anonymous and undated letter is chiefly
interesting because of the bibliographical problem to which it gives rise,
and the following discussion of the date, authorship, etc. is primarily
intended to reflect light on that difficulty. The document is found in
the Bibliotheca Marucelliana at Florence, Cod. C. 73, fol. 116. As the
letters in this volume are for the most part addressed to Cardinal Moroni,
we may conclude that this note also was once among his papers. It is
on a half-sheet of paper with no water-mark. The seal is gone.
II. Date and Author.—As the letter was evidently written not long
after the Rizzio murder, and in commendation of the plans which the
Bishop of Dunblane had been advocating in Rome, we may provisionally
attribute the letter to him or to some person in a similar position. The
address, Reverendo Patri Everardo, is certainly written in an English or
Scottish hand, and my impression on looking at it was that the character
was that of the Bishop of Dunblane, but as I had no opportunity of
making a collation, I do not wish to lay any stress on that impression.
The addressee is presumably to be identified with the Father Everard
Mercurian, S. J., who was so often mentioned during the mission of Father